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Tender and passionate,
Confident, care-giving,
Meticulous, shrewd, industrious, genial,
Trusting, engaging, endearing, and best of all:
Earnest.
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If you have no reason to be happy,
And yet, no reason to be sad,
Where does that leave you?
On the shore of some supersalty lake,
Waters impossibl..
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This night
Doesn't even rate a memory,
Let alone a poem.
Another haphazard assembly of singles
Summoned from the depths of lonely lairs
By High L..
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"All I want is someone to hold me,"
Dan lamented the other night.
"Is that too much to ask?"
Why, yes it is,
Too much by far.
Poor wretched man,
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Just as I
Was held suspended
Elated maybe
In expectation
Was drifting into
A state of awe
The messenger
A bird perhaps
Was slain
Its pinions ..
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Unless you howl like Ginsberg,
Or maim yourself like Van Gogh,
Or choke on gas like Plath,
You'll go unnoticed evermore,
Your presence here on Ear..
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There's nothing prideworthy in my life.
Accomplishments? Those routine hurdles
All part and parcel of the race
Prescribed for the Western middle cl..
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The dogs outside of the Starbucks
Wag their tails in greeting
At passersby and their leashed companions
Who prance along just a nose too far
To sn..
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Triangulating where I think we are
By locking sights upon the farthest star,
Connecting dots that likely don't exist,
And chanting like a mindless ..
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In the drug of the moment,
Things get said,
Imperishables like
Forevermore, and
I think I love you.
But then you coast down to
Less ethereal lev..
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